The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind

What works

Installation of the GotY version and the eight official add-ons work perfectly.

Gameplay, Sound and engine speed as under Windows (a trifle faster, maybe).  Hardware acceleration (sound/gfx) is flawless, environmental audio is, too.

What does not

Inventory picture of the PC is flipped topside-down.  The worn/carried inventory items, however, are "virtually" the right way up; to take off a shirt, click the pants, to take off shoes, click above the left ear (or use the inventory items directly).

minor clipping errors: doors flicker and partly or completely vanish for several frames, depending on your viewing direction and movement, clothing parts flicker.

Outside of GNOME or KDE, the Morrowind launcher shows an empty Plugin/File List and crashes silently.

Workarounds

What was not tested

nothing.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

There are only two "real" Elder Scrolls games. Arena and Morrowind. They are art, fantasy, and immersingly deep. I played them many times over, and it seems I will do that again and again, thanks to Wine.

2014-11-14 Admin note: the following was extracted from a user comment made on November 9th 2013, and may not be relevant to current Wine.

About windows getting minimized, the workaround is pretty simple : the MenuStates of the .ini file is reset everytime you launch the game, which causes it to define minimized windows. What you need to do is chmod it to read-only (chmod 444 does the trick) after having changed the MenuStates parameters to suitable window sizes.

I got it to work with around 50 mods, the thing is the .ini file needs to update the modlist, so you first need to run Morrowind with a writable .ini file (chmod 644 works like a charm), then you can kill the process immediately afterwards (wineserver -k after Ctrl+Alt+F1 for instance), chmod the .ini to 444 after checking the MenuStates section is still well and about, and launch the game !